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"This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation, they incorporate experimental and corpus data to inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance. As a whole, these contributions explore two areas of particular interest to linguistic theorizing. The first is linguistic interfaces with chapters on syntax-information structure, syntax-prosody, syntax-semantics, and lexicon-phonology. The second consists of explorations of noun phrases of all sizes-from clitics to nominalized clauses. The results and conclusions of these studies encourage researchers to continue to explore individual languages in particular in order to gain insight on human language in general. This edited volume in honor of Dr. Paula Kempchinsky is reflective of the diversity of approaches that inspired her teaching, research, and mentoring for over thirty years at the University of Iowa and beyond"--

Romance languages --- Syntax. --- Noun phrase. --- Grammar, Comparative.

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"In Revelation in the Qur'an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in order to shed light on the modalities of revelation in the Qur'an. Through an exhaustive analysis of their occurrences in the Qur'an as well as pre-Islamic poetry, Loynes argues that the two roots represent distinct occurrences in the Qur'anic concept of revelation, with the former concerned with spatial events and the latter with communicative. This has significant consequences for understanding the Qur'an's unique concept of revelation and how this is both in concord and at variance with earlier revelations"--

Arabic language --- Arabic language --- Revelation --- Noun --- Verb --- Islam

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"In Revelation in the Qur'an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in order to shed light on the modalities of revelation in the Qur'an. Through an exhaustive analysis of their occurrences in the Qur'an as well as pre-Islamic poetry, Loynes argues that the two roots represent distinct occurrences in the Qur'anic concept of revelation, with the former concerned with spatial events and the latter with communicative. This has significant consequences for understanding the Qur'an's unique concept of revelation and how this is both in concord and at variance with earlier revelations"--

Arabic language --- Arabic language --- Revelation --- Noun. --- Verb. --- Islam. --- Qurʼan --- Qurʼan --- Language, style. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Hybrid nouns have a morphological shape that doesn't match their semantic interpretation. Such nouns pose clear and interesting questions for the nature of grammatical features. For instance, how does a single feature contribute distinct information values to different components of the grammar? Furthermore, what does this observation reveal about the syntax, often taken to mediate between the morphology and the semantics?This book studies hybrid nouns and argues that a single grammatical feature is comprised of two halves, a semantic half and a morphological half, that coexist in the syntax before being sent to the respective interfaces. Viewing features in this way allows us a new look at numerous types of hybrid nouns, such as Imposter constructions, nouns of collection, as well as nouns like 'furniture' that straddle the mass-count distinction. Moreover, the study of the agreement patterns of hybrid nouns shows that semantic features behave differently to morphological features under agreement, providing a novel insight into the nature of the mechanism that underlies morphosyntactic agreement.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Noun

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The papers collected in this book cover contemporary and original research on semantic and grammatical issues of nouns and noun phrases, verbs and sentences, and aspects of the combination of nouns and verbs, in a great variety of languages. A special focus is put on noun types, tense and aspect semantics, granularity of verb meaning, and subcompositionality. The investigated languages and language groups include Austronesian, East Asian, Slavic, German, English, Hungarian and Lakhota. The collection provided in this book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students specialising in the fields of semantics, morphology, syntax, typology, and cognitive sciences.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Adrian Czardybon. --- Anita Mittwoch. --- Byoong-Rae Ryu. --- Claire Moyse-Faurie. --- Dieter Wunderlich. --- Ekkehard König. --- Gerhard Schurz. --- Grammar. --- Hana Filip. --- Hungarian. --- Japanese. --- Jens Fleischhauer. --- Korean. --- Lakhota. --- Laura Kallmeyer. --- Leon Stassen. --- Michael Herwig. --- Nouns. --- Peter Indefrey. --- Pragmatic possession. --- Present Perfect Puzzle. --- Ralf Naumann. --- Robert D. van Valin. --- SFB 991. --- Sebastian Löbner. --- Semantik. --- Tagalog. --- Teop. --- Thomas Gamerschlag. --- Ulrike Mosel. --- Verbs. --- Volker Gast. --- Wiebke Petersen. --- Wilhelm Geuder. --- black language. --- case marker. --- comparative lexicology. --- corpus-linguistic. --- double nominative. --- frame account. --- frame theory. --- frame. --- noun class. --- noun-types. --- objective conjugation. --- phase quantification. --- phase-theoretical account. --- psycho-linguistic. --- referentiality. --- talicity. --- telic incremental theme predications. --- type shifts. --- white language.